dust, fish and chips!!

Day 2 of the kitchen fitting and I'm exhausted. I woke up at four this morning and couldn't get back to sleep. That together with being back at school is wiping me out. We had to rush around collecting cheques and choosing tiles. I hope the tiles look right with everything else, it's just dawned on me that I take longer selecting new scrapbook papers than I did choosing the tiles!

The guys doing the kitchen are doing a great job, the units arrived today and are stuffed into the kitchen, goodness knows how they are going to manage tomorrow when work tops etc arrive. It would be better if the front garden wasn't stacked with everything that needs to go in a skip. If only there had been room to leave one outside all week.

I'm still feeling not quite well and coughing a lot. I don't think the dust from the plasterboard is helping, still it will all be worth it.

Just as well I have delayed the start of my diet as tonight we had fish and chips off of paper plates, we did use knifes and forks though!

Today I enjoyed meeting some year 3 Children in school that I havn't worked with before. They were so much fun to work with :-)

Bad busy blogger!!

Well I'm not very good at keeping up this blogging lark, things have been totally crazy since last week. On Saturday I had a brilliant day at the Staines crop, hosted by the lovely Maddy, and I spent all day making up my Scrapitude diary kit and I love the results. I decided to use it to record my Word of the Year "Enjoy" and use it as a journal. The rest of the journal is in my gallery on the Scrapitude Forum.

Don't think I'll get much scrapping done this week as we are having a new kitchen fitted. I know that by this time next week I'll be really pleased that we had it done but at the moment the house looks like a tip, I can't make a decent cup of coffee, our electrics have been declared dangerous so on top of our already big bill we need to have the fuse box etc replaced. Still that's better than blowing up!
In my effort to find something to enjoy today I have decided to pour a large night cap of the malt kind and crawl back into my cupboard.

Hope you are having a good start to January.

A good day!

I almost finished tidying my craft room, so as a reward and before I lost the will to live I actually did some crafting. A layout and a card. I used to make cards before I started scrapping but havn't really made many for the past couple of years but I think I'll be making more now that the card divas on Scrapitude are coming up with great challenges.
The layout is about the christmas tree that I made for a cybercrop challenge on UKS in 2006.






The card challenge was set by SJ on the Scrapitude forum, it was to make a card all in one colour, mine is pink!

Happy New Year

We had a great New Year, staying with our very lovely friends. Playing games, over eating and drinking just a little too much. So now I'm home and thankfully feeling a little better so I have no more excuse and tomorrow I have to do some scrapbooking, might also have a go at making a card because there is a great sketch on the Cardvark site. Thanks to SJ for posting details on the wonderful Scraptitude forum.

I am determined to spend more time crafting and to post at least three projects a week on my blog, so to start with here is my 2007 Holiday journal that I have not posted elsewhere. As there are lots of photos I've put it as a slideshow.